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Energy stunting

From AllAccess:

KNRJ/PHOENIX... has been playing MINISTRY "Everyday Is Halloween" and WALL OF VOODOO "Mexican Radio" continuously all day today (10/31). KNRJ's Website (http://www.energyarizonafm.com) displays a Happy Halloween message.

On their site is "Tune In Thursday 11.01.07 at 10am MST"
 
Here's an 18-minute clip of the stunt loop: http://www.mediafire.com/?4g1oo7z2btn
It's basically the same 3 songs played over and over. These songs are among the strangest I've ever heard - and mind you, I used to work at a college radio station that used to play about 95% death metal, the strangest music known to man, IMO. These songs aren't as strange as death metal, but they're pretty strange. And they're laden with clues as well. One of the songs is about Halloween, which is today, and the other is about Mexican radio. Also, there are liners played in between the songs are all in Spanglish. They make reference that there will be some kind of announcement on November 1st at 10 AM. Could this be a clue to what the future holds for the 92.7 / 101.1 signals, or are they just screwing with us? This whole stunt isn't as weird as the 103.9 "Steve" stunt from a few years ago, but I'd say given the musical selections, it's pretty weird.
 
I was driving to work this morning and caught this.

the 3 songs are Wall of Voodoo- Mexican Radio
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
and I do believe the other one is Called "Headhunter" I think it's by Front 242 but am not exactly sure.

anyway's those songs are all from my youth and it was a surprise to hear them.
and there NOT! Strange as the other poster was commenting on.

There is a lot of music in that Genre from the 80's that radio refused to play.
but was quite available at the time on Record and Cassette and a lot of those bands had a cult following.
Not everyone growing up in the 80's revolved around Madonna and Wham :)

Some of us searched out our own musical identities and did not depend on the record industry to tell us what was popular.

it would be cool to see energy play more of those artists, But with the Shallow Minds of The Mainstream "Mundanes"
I doubt if they would understand.

if energy switches to spanish GOOD LUCK!

it would be very hard for them to compete in the spanish market with such a weak weak signal.
unless they were aiming at the market around prescott, cottonwood, flagstaff and payson.
you can just forget phoenix with that flea power 10-watt translator on south mountain, because that just don't cut it.
the only people in phoenix that even cared about 92.7 was the die hard dance fans.
most of the people I know, never even heard of the station.
probably because the Search/Scan feature in your car would not even acknowledge 92.7 unless you were almost on top of south mountain.

it would stop at that annoying news station to the left, pass right over 92.7 and land on the lame rock station on the right ;D

92.7 and 101.1 are in the toilet, let me come up there with my laptop and mp3 collection about 50,000 songs and show you what a real cutting edge station would sound like.

Live outside the BOX!

play new and exciting dance music, not the same tired thump thump thump crap that is played at most bars in the valley.
look for new and fresh bands.
throw in some old school first wave alternative from the 80's play a few hard-core industrial songs, maybe even some mash-up mixes and rock mixes.

Go Wild do something different.

But Please Not another Rap station.

Oh Wait! I mentioned the Mainstream "Mundanes" and that's who makes up most of the valley, so it probably would end up just another "Crap" oops I meant Rap station.
 
AZOOTEN said:
and I do believe the other one is Called "Headhunter" I think it's by Front 242 but am not exactly sure.

You are correct, it is Front 242's "Headhunter". Great song!

Given that the audience size is so small for Energy, I'm wondering how many people are actually listening to the stunting? Energy is pissing off what little audience they had left, which leaves the radio amateurs and pros to listen to the stunting.

Hmmm...that makes about 20-30 people, if you don't count Nurse Jeff. ;D
 
it's strange that the most listened to and downloaded music formats online (chillout, trance, techno).. commercial radio won't touch.?

commercial dance radio was only bubble-gum pop 40 crossover dance edits. ..nothing new. ..nothing that isn't heard on every other station in town.

markus schulz, carl cox, john digweed, pete tong and paul oakenfold are syndicating dance radio done right.

http://johndigweed.com/
 
Mark77 said:
Also, there are liners played in between the songs are all in Spanglish.

That's not Spanglish... just bad Spanish spoken by a non-Spanish speaker. Hahaha.
 
FightingIrish said:
On their site is "Tune In Thursday 11.01.07 at 10am MST"

BFD. It is more of the same about a format that does not work anywhere in the US. New Mixes! Wow, big deal.
 
Well, folks, here's the answer. At 10 AM MST, Energy 92.7 / 101.1 relaunched as THE NEW Energy 92.7 / 101.1. I have the audio to prove it: http://www.mediafire.com/?9bjt22nejhy (11-minute clip)
Looks like they didn't change formats after all. They just reformatted the station and its playlist a bit. So, it looks like Arizona won't be getting another Spanish radio station after all, which is good, I guess.
By the way, just for fun, what exactly were they saying in the liners during the stunt? I'm curious.
 
This was a "stunt" taken right out of the KDKB playbook from September 2006. Act as though you are stunting and going to change the format--then do absolutely nothing but insert new imaging.

Terrestrial radio and it's lack of creativity strikes again, folks.

Doing these types of stunts only serves to upset the small base of an audience the station has, because during this time I would imagine a fan of the format would look to find their music elsewhere (internet, downloading ,etc) and may not return. The "brain" behind that move should have been given his pink slip first thing this morning... but that assumes that the folks at Energy 92.7/101.1 have brains.
 
Are you kidding me? This is Energy's last chance to redeem themselves and this is all they got? First of all, the only thing that sounds different are the sweepers. And you STILL can't understand them. The music sounds like they are stuck back in 2003 with the occasional current (either that tired Pete Yorn mash up or the wrong version of Public Enemy). Even BPM or I Party radio have better tracks in rotation. Too bad they are not on FM. Anybody notice the "More Mixes"
portion on the website? The line up looks exactly the same, except the PD is listed as the first mixer! Yes even in front of Oakenfold and Schulz. Uuummm, what time is his show on?? I didn't realize remixing half of the playlist gave you that title.
 
DavidEduardo said:
That's not Spanglish... just bad Spanish spoken by a non-Spanish speaker. Hahaha.

the English sucked, too...
I don't pretend to speak the language, but this had to be bad on purpose...didn't it?
 
now that drudge isn't doing his sunday night show, i listened to energy instead.

i gotta say, knrj rocked saturday & sunday nights, in tha mix.

if only the could stay in the mix 24/7 and allow the mixers to be music directors.

straight off the decks. ..no music from the computer please!!
 
DavidEduardo said:
FightingIrish said:
On their site is "Tune In Thursday 11.01.07 at 10am MST"

BFD. It is more of the same about a format that does not work anywhere in the US. New Mixes! Wow, big deal.
Just because YOU don't like dance music, you can't say this format doesn't work ANYWHERE in the United States!!! Granted, I don't see how it survives in an area like Phoenix, but you cannot make a blanket statement like that!!! Not everyone listens to hispanic radio.
 
Hamp said:
Just because YOU don't like dance music, you can't say this format doesn't work ANYWHERE in the United States!!! Granted, I don't see how it survives in an area like Phoenix, but you cannot make a blanket statement like that!!! Not everyone listens to hispanic radio.

OK...name one place (in the United States) where this format is generating even halfway-respectable ratings...and more importantly, revenue.
 
I've listened to this station online.
What type of dance music is it?

Kinda sounds like Trance from the early 2000s and remixes of the same old Beyonce and Rhianna stuff that is heard on Top 40 and Urban stations.

This isn't a real dance station.
Maybe they should try something like KISS 100 in London.
 
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